Athenas Choice, Adam Boostrom
Athenas Choice, Adam Boostrom
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Athena's Choice

Author: Adam Boostrom

Narrator: Alex Ford

Unabridged: 7 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thinker Books

Published: 05/10/2019


Synopsis

What if a viral pandemic put women in charge of the planet?
"One of the Best Books of 2019"--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Athena Vosh lives just like any other teenager from the year 2099. She watches reality shows with her friends, eats well, and occasionally wonders to herself: what would life be like if men were still alive?
It has been almost 50 years since an experimental virus accidentally killed all the men on earth. However, a controversial project is currently underway to bring men back. There's just one catch. The project has been sabotaged.
So begins Athena's Choice. When the police of 2099 are tasked with finding the saboteur, they receive a mysterious command to investigate the otherwise innocuous Athena Vosh. After it becomes clear that the young girl might know more than she lets on, Athena is brought in to participate in the official investigation. Simultaneously, the girl begins to experience a series of cryptic dreams featuring a ruined library and an old book containing the saboteur’s true identity. As the police close in on their prize, Athena finds herself on a journey of her own. Her clue-filled dreams and incorruptible spirit bring her face-to-face with a pair of forgotten truths about happiness and gender. The world waits to see if men will return as Athena fights a separate battle, culminating in the choice that will define her and others' lives forever.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sumit on March 02, 2021

Athena's Choice is a science fiction set in the near future, where all men are extinct. A dangerous experimental virus has killed all men on earth. Fifty years later, in the year 2099, a project is initiated to bring men back to life, but it faces a threat —someone doesn’t want this project to succe......more

Goodreads review by donna on August 15, 2020

The premise of Athena's Choice is exactly the kind of idea that always draws me to speculative fiction. No men in society, you say? World hunger is solved? Violent crime is a distant memory? I absolutely need to read this book. But once I got into the meat of it, I discovered it was all over the plac......more

Goodreads review by andrea on April 29, 2021

DNF at 25% Yeah, sorry, this book and I just didn’t vibe. Nothing against it or anything, it seems cool and all, but I’m just bored and not in the mood. Maybe I’ll pick it back up later, I don’t know. As for right now, I’m just terribly bored and am in need of moving on. I thought the writing style was......more

Goodreads review by Adam on August 05, 2019

As the author of this book, I wanted to personally leave its 100th review as a call-to-action for Congress to pass gun-reform. The unceasing greed and callousness of NRA-bought Republicans utterly blows my mind every single day.......more

Goodreads review by Christina on August 20, 2020

So, I am VERY particular about my science fiction books. I am not a fan of alien sci-fi (don't believe in aliens, cannot suspend disbelief) or time travel/wormhole sci-fi (ditto). I prefer mindf*ck sci-fi like Twilight Zone / Black Mirror about totally alternate and preferably bizarre universes, Oh,......more